Re: [PATCH] tcp: clarify comment for mdev_us in struct tcp_sock

[Fernando Fernandez Mancera]

On 8/5/26 3:19 PM, Ziran Zhang wrote:
> The existing comment for mdev_us says "medium deviation", but this
> term is inaccurate. The field stores the "mean deviation" of RTT,
> as originally defined in Van Jacobson's paper "Congestion
> Avoidance and Control", and it is scaled by 4 (<< 2) in the Linux
> implementation.
>
> Update the comment to reflect the correct terminology and storage
> format.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ziran Zhang <zhangcoder@xxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Fernando Fernandez Mancera <fmancera@xxxxxxx>

Thanks!